{"id":4623,"date":"2014-10-09T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2014-10-09T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:32:10","slug":"what-is-fslac-doing-in-preparation-for-trustee-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/what-is-fslac-doing-in-preparation-for-trustee-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"What is FSLAC Doing in Preparation for Trustee Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, October 27, 2014, as part of the municipal election, we have the opportunity to vote for TDSB trustees. Trustees are very important in the running of our school board &#8211; they pick the priorities and they approve the budget. They advocate for our kids and the programs we want to have for them.<\/p>\n<p>What you can do:<\/p>\n<p>Check who your trustee candidates are on the city <a title=\"myVote\" href=\"http:\/\/app.toronto.ca\/vote\/myVote.do\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about what trustees do on the <a href=\"http:\/\/elections.ontarioschooltrustees.org\/en\/elections\/2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario Public School Board Association election site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When you see your local candidates at an all candidates&#8217; meeting or in the community, ask one of these <a href=\"http:\/\/on.cpf.ca\/blog\/whats-new\/municipalschool-board-elections-what-to-ask-your-trustee-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested questions<\/a> from Canadian Parents for French.<\/p>\n<p>Share <a href=\"http:\/\/on.cpf.ca\/blog\/whats-new\/municipalschool-board-elections-what-to-ask-your-trustee-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article from the Toronto Star<\/a> with friends, family and neighbours to encourage voters to make an informed choice for trustee.<\/p>\n<p>What your FSLAC is doing:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FSLAC is sending a short survey to every trustee candidate about French programs and we will be sharing the responses with you via email before the advance polls open on Tuesday, October 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your vote matters for all of our kids. You can help maintain and improve our French as a Second (Official) Language programs and make the TDSB an even better place to go to school.<\/p>\n<p>For any questions, contact:<br \/>\nKristina Laperle<br \/>\nParent Co-chair<br \/>\nrench as Second Language Advisory Committee<br \/>\n<a title=\"fslactoronto@gmail.com\" href=\"mailto:fslactoronto@gmail.com\">fslactoronto@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, October 27, 2014, as part of the municipal election, we have the opportunity to vote for TDSB trustees. Trustees are very important in the running of our school board &#8211; they pick the priorities and they approve the budget. They advocate for our kids and the programs we want to have for them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[398,99,408,397],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-awareness","tag-elections","tag-fslac","tag-municipal-elections","tag-trustee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}